Come Now to Find Us
O God...
come now to find us
for we have lost our selves
in a shuffle of disguises
and the rattle of empty words.
Let your Spirit move
mercifully
to recreate us from
the chaos of our lives.
We have been careless
of our days,
our loves,
our gifts,
our chances.
We withdraw in
arrogance,
hide in timidity,
disappear in fear
rather than reaching out in hope,
engaging in humility,
risking in faith.
We are busy in
self-seeking,
lax in self-awareness.
We seek the comfort
of belonging,
shun the cost of responsibility.
We are long on easy
generalities,
short on hard specifics.
Our prayer is to
change, O God,
not out of despair of self
but for love of
you,
and for the selves we long to become...
Let your mercy move
in and through us now,
freeing us to love honestly,
enabling us to trust bravely,
reuniting us to live joyfully,
and claiming us for the audacious
revolution
of Christ and your kingdom.
Amen. Ted Loder
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